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PAG LIN 1 1 Amend Senate File 451 as follows: 1 2 #1. Page 1, by inserting after line 14 the 1 3 following: 1 4 "Sec. . NEW SECTION. 13B.2A INDIGENT DEFENSE 1 5 ADVISORY COMMISSION. 1 6 An indigent defense advisory commission is 1 7 established within the department to advise and make 1 8 recommendations to the legislature and the state 1 9 public defender regarding the hourly rates paid to 1 10 court-appointed counsel and per case fee limitations. 1 11 These recommendations shall be consistent with the 1 12 constitutional requirement to provide effective 1 13 assistance of counsel to those indigent persons for 1 14 whom the state is required to provide counsel. 1 15 The advisory commission shall consist of five 1 16 members. The governor shall appoint three members, 1 17 including one member from nominations by the Iowa 1 18 state bar association and one member from nominations 1 19 by the supreme court. Two members, one from each 1 20 chamber of the general assembly, shall be appointed, 1 21 with no more than one appointed from the same 1 22 political party. Each member shall serve a three-year 1 23 term, with initial terms to be staggered. No more 1 24 than three members shall be licensed to practice law 1 25 in Iowa. The state public defender shall serve as an 1 26 ex officio member of the commission and shall serve as 1 27 the nonvoting chair of the commission. 1 28 The members of the commission are entitled to 1 29 receive reimbursement for actual expenses incurred as 1 30 provided for in section 7E.6, subsection 2 while 1 31 engaged in the performance of the duties of the 1 32 commission. 1 33 The advisory commission shall file a written report 1 34 every three years with the governor and the general 1 35 assembly by January 1 of a year in which a report is 1 36 due regarding the recommendations and activities of 1 37 the commission. The first such report shall be due on 1 38 January 1, 2003." 1 39 #2. Page 9, line 1, by striking the word 1 40 "reimbursed" and inserting the following: "reimbursed1 41 paid". 1 42 #3. By renumbering as necessary. 1 43 1 44 1 45 1 46 O. GENE MADDOX 1 47 SF 451.301 78 1 48 jm/cf
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